Six-dimensional force sensors can be applied to multiple industries. Here are some of the main application industries:
Industrial manufacturing
• Robotics field:
• Industrial robots: In the welding, assembly, and painting processes of automobile manufacturing, robots can accurately sense the contact force and torque with the workpiece, ensuring the accuracy and stability of the operation. For example, when inserting parts into assembly holes, they can avoid improper force that could damage the parts or cause assembly failure.
• Grinding and polishing robot: Real-time monitoring of the force and torque between the robot and the workpiece being ground ensures that the grinding force and angle are appropriate, so that the surface quality and precision of the product meet the requirements, such as the high-precision grinding of aerospace parts.
• Collaborative robots: These robots help humans or other devices work together more effectively. When working with humans, they can sense human strength and movement in real time and adjust their own movement and force output to ensure the safety and efficiency of human-computer interaction.
• Automated production and quality inspection: On the production line, it is used to monitor the stress on equipment, promptly detect equipment failures or abnormalities, and ensure the stable operation of the production line. It can also be used for product quality inspection, such as testing the strength, durability, and stability of products to ensure that product quality meets standards.
• Machining process monitoring: Real-time monitoring of cutting force and tool wear provides data feedback to operators to optimize machining parameters, improve machining efficiency and quality, and extend tool life.
Medical Rehabilitation
• Surgical robots: help doctors perform more precise and safer surgical procedures. For example, in minimally invasive surgery, they can precisely control the movement, force, and position of surgical instruments to avoid damage to the patient's normal tissues.
• Rehabilitation robots: assist patients in rehabilitation training, monitor the force and torque interaction between the patient and the robot in real time, provide precise assistance and treatment based on the patient's strength and posture, and assess the patient's rehabilitation status to provide a basis for developing personalized rehabilitation plans, such as assessing muscle strength and joint range of motion in stroke patients.
• Prosthetic control: Combined with the prosthetic control system, it senses information such as ground reaction force and knee joint torque to achieve more precise prosthetic control, making walking more natural and stable for above-knee amputees.
Aerospace
• Aircraft Control and Navigation: During takeoff, cruise, and landing, the forces and torques acting on the aircraft are measured in real time to provide accurate data for the flight control system, ensuring the stability and safety of the flight attitude.
• Satellite attitude control: Satellites need to constantly adjust their attitude while in orbit. Six-dimensional force sensors can monitor the forces and torques acting on the satellite in real time, providing data support for the attitude control system and ensuring the stability and accuracy of the satellite.
• Aerospace equipment testing: Used to test the stress on aerospace vehicles under different conditions, providing data support for designers to optimize aerospace vehicle design.
auto industry
• Chassis Control and Safety System: Monitors the forces and torques acting on the vehicle in real time, providing accurate information to the chassis control system to ensure the stability and safety of the vehicle, such as helping the control system to better adjust the vehicle's posture when the vehicle is turning or braking.
• Collision safety system: When a vehicle is involved in a collision, it quickly detects the force and direction of the collision, providing a basis for the activation of safety devices such as airbags to ensure passenger safety.
• Vehicle performance testing: During the automotive research and development and testing phase, it is used to measure the stress on the vehicle under various operating conditions, providing data support for optimizing vehicle performance, such as measuring the stress on the vehicle's suspension system under different road conditions.
Scientific Research Experiment
• Material performance testing: Measuring the strength, stiffness, plastic deformation and other performance parameters of materials under stress, providing important data for material research and development and quality control.
• Biomedical research: used to study the mechanisms and properties of biological systems, such as measuring parameters like deformation and stress distribution of biological tissues or cells under different forces.
